Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12

Tor Anne TO come 10 America. Isut py the
time the person who was sent for her ar
rived at County Kilkenny Anne and all
traces OF her had disappeared as completely
as though she had never existed This was
severe blow TO the parents and brothers
and sisters Of Anne, and, though mourning
her almost "a one dead, they never ceased
TO hope that she might be found.
1t was not until sixteen years after
Anne's disappearance that another oPpor-
tunity TO search for her was presented. At
this time 4 friend Of the family decided TO
visit his old homo near the town where
William Delaney had been born and bred.
He was employed TO find Anne If nc had To
search every foot OF the island over for her.
And this was literally what he did. lie not
only searched Ireland from north to south
end from east TO west, but he interested
others in the search. and had her name
called in the churches during his stay.
Where was Anne Dclancyi Every body
asked the question and nobody answered
It. But recourse 70 the churches
very nearly solved the problem.
Some one heard tho calls and grad
ually remembered that tho name OF
Arne-MIry Annc-Delaney was familiar
20 his cars. Then he recollectcd that when
Anne's grandparents died she had been
taken in charge by family which was
about to sail for Australia. An aunt Of
Anne's hail gone 10 Australia some time
before With her husband. ". II. Gibson, and
IL was thought that Anne might have found
homo with them II did not seem so far
20 Australia in those days as Il did TO Amer
lea, and besides there was no one going To
America in whose care Anne could bc
placed This was tho information which
William Dclnncy's friend brought back 10
America A correspondence cnsucd, but
without result. w. II. Gibson was located
as governor Of Beechworth Jail in Mel
bourne, but no satisfactory explanation as
to Anncs whereabouts was obtained from
him. Later on tho Dclancys, who wcro then
living in Jacksonville, H., obtained in
formation from n gentleman just arrived
from Melbourne which led them to believe
that Anne was dead. After SO many years
OF hopeful expectation of yet seeing her
aliye and well this was sorrowful conclu-
zion for the Delaney family TO come TO, but
there was no further reason for believing
her alive. so they moCrncd her as dead, and
doubted II they would ever know in what
country under the sun her grave was.
But that the memory Of Mary Anne Dc
lancy was still fresh was demonstrated by
the exclamation OF Joy uttered by Johnny
Delaney few days ago, when his eyes fell
upon tho following communication published
in tho T16ans;
MELBOURNE, Australia-EIiior Of the Tflb-
uas: You will please to excuse the liberty I
am taking by asking you II you would be
so good as to find my PARENTS address for me-
an daughter of William Delaney and Mary
Bowling, my mothers maiden name. 1 have
three brothers md two sisters. When last
hoard OF they wcro in Springfield, ILL.,, and as
FAR as can remember my father was . wardcr
In 4 hnI an inf VII. aI.., foFe
me with my grandparents. Joseph bowling
was my grsadfather's name. 1 stopped with
them until they both dlcl. Then an aunt IN
Austrah7-my mothers sistcr-Scnt for me
whom am now living " III. Her married name
Is Mrs. W. II. Gibson. hope, dear SIR, that you
will bestow an everlasting obligation on me By
finding their address Cor me.
The reason for my writing TO you is that you
would be most likely 10 know OF them.
Hoping that you will pardon the liberty that I
an taking, and IL you find them out yuu WILL
please let them know about me, rs you Will be
dong an everlasting debt of gratitude, rc-
main, dear sir, yours,
MARY ANNE DELANEY
The family sat down around the sitting
room table and read tho wonderful letter
over and over again. After their first burst
Of rejoicing was over they discussed the
strange fatality Of the whole thing. For
moro than twenty years they had searched
the wldo world over for their lost Anne, and
now, when they had at last given her up as
dead, it so happened that Anne, in mo-
mcnt OF inspiration, had written q letter to
newspaper on the opposite side Of the
globc which-strange coincidcncel-was
the very paper OF al others which her lost
parents and brothers and sisters read rcgu-
larry. Then there was an industrious
period Of correspondence Johnny wrote
tho rrial No US N hia hrnt bcr ICro IL, noa1
wood, and Joe and Kate wrote long letters
TO Anne. When this had been done they
oil fell to discussing the quickest way to get
Anne to America. II was decided that
Johnny should 90 sfor her, and il nothing
Ia ppens 10 prevent ho will SAIL on the next
steamer that passes westward through tho
Golden Gate.